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Interpreting the Bible and the Qur’an through Love

Scripture, Love, and Hermeneutics

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Interpreting the Bible and the Qur’an through Love

Scripture, Love, and Hermeneutics

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This book investigates the role of love as an exegetical resource for interpreting the Bible and the Qur'an.

Through surveying the ways in which love was used to make sense of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures, this book advocates and argues for a hermeneutical approach that reads the Bible and the Qur'an through the lens of love. Engaging various exegetical authorities from the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, Tareq Hesham Moqbel identifies numerous cases of love-informed exegesis covering diverse themes and exegetical techniques.

The exegetical dialogue presented in this book shows that the idea of love takes on greater meaning when studied from the standpoint of comparative exegesis. Moreover, by analysing this topic through a comparative lens, the book argues for a novel conceptualisation of love as an exegetical tool, and a reading ethic, that connects the Abrahamic scriptural traditions and can be applied beyond them.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Conventions and Style
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Framework
3. God's Love
4. Humanity's Love for God
5. Social and Worldly Love
6. Postscript
Bibliography
Index of Biblical Verses
Index of Qur'anic Verses
General Index

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 16 Oct 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 228
ISBN 9781350424890
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Tareq Hesham Moqbel

Tareq Hesham Moqbel is a Research Fellow at Regent…

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